М.Shaimiev: "Tatarstan can well afford to undertake development of several breakthrough directions in the field of public health care"

The Volga region branch of the Russian oncological N.N. Blokhin science center will be to set up in Kazan on the basis of the Clinical oncological clinic of RT Ministry of Health this year.

The principal decision on this issue has been accepted today during meeting between President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev and Director of N.N. Blokhin ROSC of the Russian academy of medical sciences Mikhail Davydov.

It has been settled to attack by all means " a plague of XX century " which in opinion of Mikhail Davydov is not AIDS but cancer diseases is possible by uniting efforts of the republic, the Russian oncological science centre, the Russian academy of medical sciences, various international and republican anti-carcinogenic funds, grants.

Today, when the most important, urgent programs in the republic mainly are being performed and implemented, Tatarstan can well afford to undertake several directions in the field of public health care at the highest world level, Mintimer Shaimiev assured. " We in any case are aimed at it - territory of the republic for such quantity of the population is not so big, oil and gas here have been produced for 60 years, petrochemistry is developing further, loading on ecology far from decreasing. We should undertake for it and we do ", - he emphasized. Among breakthrough directions of developing medicine and public health services the head of republic named oncology, cardiology and children's morbidity.